Improvement in projectiles for small arms



. MADUELL improvement in Pmjectil'es for Small Arms.

Patented Jan. 9, 1872 CARLOS MADUELL, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PROJECTILES FOR SMALL ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,620, dated January9, 1872.

Specification describing a certain Improvement in Missiles forFire-Arms, invented by CARLOS MADUELL, of New Orleans, in the'Parish ofOrleans and State of Louisiana.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of missiles orprojectiles for fire-arms in which the balls or bullets are formed intransverse or longitudinal sections. Hitherto these have been soconstructed that when fitted together they were free to move one uponthe other, and hence the slightest cause in the form of an obstacle toflight of the ball may induce the sections to become separated, and thusfrustrate the purpose of the missile. To remedy this defect, and providea sectional ball capable of being rapidly, conveniently. and evencarelessly handled, without liability of the parts composing it becomingmisplaced in the slightest degree, I form the sections with lateralangular projections and recesses, whereby they are adapted to fittogether, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a side View of asectional conical missile attached to ametallic cartridge-case, thesamebeing constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section of Fig. 1, taken on the line a; 00. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of one of the sections. Fig. 4 represents a top View.

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A is the sectional missile or projectile, which is composed of fourparts, marked, respectively, B, O, D, and E, each part being providedwith an angular projection and depression, so

Witnesses T. AVENDAFIO, ANTONIO LUNNINAGA.

